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Some guys at our local store are running a 1000pt 40k tourney and have posted that they are using Aussie rules. Has anybody heard of this, or is this probably just their own wording for smaller game size rules?

Mixed doubles?

Does it involve punching each other in the face? Or is that just the Aussie rules for football?*

*(Read as 'soccer' if you're from the USA)

Ok rules change I'm going to suggest (thanks to Hymirl). When somebody loses a game I will throw them the ball and will tackle them. I'm 6'4" and 280lbs and have been watching too much UFC lately.

What is the name of the ball in Rugby?

The losers have to buy the winner a slab*.

* A slab is a big box of beer.

Forget soccer/football/rugby.... Aussie rules football is awesome. It took us a while to figure out the rules, buy any sport with guys in lab coats has my thumbs up.

barlio wrote:What is the name of the ball in Rugby?

Kevin...?

Elric of Grans wrote:The losers have to buy the winner a slab*.

* A slab is a big box of beer.

How big is a big box of beer? Is it like a 36 pack?
Is Foster's Austrailian for beer, or do you have a greater preference?

Fosters is pretty much shunned by any true blue Aussie.

VB is the cheap piss of choice for most. It's a pretty rubbish beer, but it does the job.

As far as the original topic goes, I have absolutely no idea. Unless you're being forced to wear short shorts and sleeveless shirts and have to grab each other inappropriately to win?

(Spot the guy who's not a fan of AFL.)

barlio wrote:How big is a big box of beer? Is it like a 36 pack?

4 six-packs is a slab. Or a case, depending on which part of Oz you're from.

Is Foster's Austrailian for beer, or do you have a greater preference?

I'm not sure you can even still buy Fosters in Australia. I haven't seen it since the 80's.

Fosters is Australian for something, but it sure as hell isn't beer. It usually translates as "the liquid extracted from the back end of a horse."

VB, on the other hand, is what goes INTO the horse (via the front end) to make it.

A slab is both a given quantity of beer (24 bottles/cans - 4x6-packs is 'standard' but up to 30 bottles is still a 'slab) = 9l of beer AND a distance measure. I've heard that Darwin to Katherine is 4 slabs.

I'd go with the loser buys the beer rules.
The more you lose, the more you keep losing.

Kinda like that old janx spirit, in a way.

Fosters is the waste product left after the creation of beer.

It is sad that my description works both metaphorically and literally.

The good old "having sex in a canoe"?

You aussies sure do a good job of promoting one of the few known australian products (outside of animals and funny dialects).

No, fosters isn't 'sex in a canoe'.

We leave that description for most American beers.

(I have tried a few US and Canadian beers and some were actually rather nice.).

Aussie rules is afl so.... i dont know what there talking about.

insaniak wrote:

barlio wrote:What is the name of the ball in Rugby?

Kevin...?

That was the best answer I've ever seen to a question. I'm laughing like a moron in my office and my coworkers are starting to wonder why.

Thanks

have you tryed askin the guy?

and i think they published nearly the same rule book in the land of upside down... if not exactly the same....

I'm going to ask him before the tournament, probably today, but I like to "test the waters" of public opinion in matters like this. Gamesworkshop in general is not well supported in our area. We have some great players and guys who could compete in tournaments, but the general population likes to stick to their own circles of players. I generally have to travel an hour east or south to enjoy regular play in tournaments or mass battles. The idea of a tournament at our little store is exciting, but I'm somewhat weary since I only know a few of the guys who are actually playing.

After Saturday I'll let you guys know how it went and whether or not alcohol was involved.

chromedog wrote:No, fosters isn't 'sex in a canoe'.

We leave that description for most American beers.

(I have tried a few US and Canadian beers and some were actually rather nice.).

Sam Adams is the best Domestic American beer, and Budweiser, Miller, and coors are just plain bad.

Unless you are in PA, in which case Yeungling (sp?) is your definition of a "premium" beer. Or Rolling Rock.

Please note: I am a girl drink drunk, and have no opinion on the matter.

Yuengling Lager is one of the greatest beers ever made. Many a night has been made better with a few Yuenglings. Oldest operational brewery in America.

When I moved from PA to Ohio, I found out that Ohioans treat Rolling Rock like some exotic import. It's from Latrobe!

i have no idea what aussie rules are.


US, UK, anywhere in the world, its football, not soccer :K !

fosters tastes like gak, as does XXXX, about the only half decent chemicle crap beer is carling.

Aussie Rules:

I used to work at GW HQ, and we had a couple of Aussies working there.

Whenever they played a game, and there was a rules question, they'd invoke Aussie rules, which is, the interpetation of the rule that best benefited the Australian.

Cheers!

KeithGatchalian wrote:

Aussie Rules:

I used to work at GW HQ, and we had a couple of Aussies working there.

Whenever they played a game, and there was a rules question, they'd invoke Aussie rules, which is, the interpetation of the rule that best benefited the Australian.

Cheers!

True, usually prefaced by "Well, I emailed <insert game designer name here> and he said it works this way."

Made it much funnier when they got whupped.

Of course Dave Taylor never pulled any of that.

Back on topic,
If anyone finds out what is meant by 'Aussie rules', please let me know. I had a customer call and mention it and was upset I couldn't give him an answer.

Red_Lives wrote:

chromedog wrote:No, fosters isn't 'sex in a canoe'.

We leave that description for most American beers.

(I have tried a few US and Canadian beers and some were actually rather nice.).

Sam Adams is the best Domestic American beer, and Budweiser, Miller, and coors are just plain bad.

I know that Vacaville is in a pretty craptacular part of California and all (the main industry in Vacaville being a prison) but you should have access to a lot of the really good beers from throughout the pacific northwest there: Deschutes brewery, Lagunitas, Anderson Valley Brewing Company, Rogue, etc.

Yes, but Dave would joke that he won a game due to Aussie rules

KeithGatchalian wrote:

Aussie Rules:
Whenever they played a game, and there was a rules question, they'd invoke Aussie rules, which is, the interpetation of the rule that best benefited the Australian.

I *love* that! And it seems to fit the Aussies I know...

Alright I talked to the guy running the tourney and apparently Aussie rules apply to the Scenarios.

From what I gathered in our conversation the scenarios have extra random things. Examples include Orbital Bombardments, bonuses to a unit of your opponents choice, but with double victory points being awarded if they are destroyed, and one vehicle of your choice gaining a special rule.

I guess the idea is to shake up the normal scenarios. Force Organization, core rules, and the consumption of alcoholic beverages is not affected.

Aussie rules?

Isn't that where the winners get to be bartenders in foreign nations so as to better pick up on chicks?

I swear to god, no matter what bar we went to in Orlando, there was an Aussie slinging drinks, hitting on MILFS.